This is eBook is based on Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland.
Download this eBook on Asset Management Plans and read what Ross had discussed on the following topics:
Introducing Ross Waugh
Asset Management Plans – Background and Resources
Asset Management Plan International Standards – A Brief Introduction
ISO 55000 – Relationship Between Key Elements of an Asset … [Read more...]

So in conclusion, in New Zealand, we’ve had 20 years of asset plans and 7 cycles of development.
We’ve got guidance available through plans and resources and templates for the specific industries as well as across multiple industries.
Levels of service, future demand, risk are the key inputs to life cycle analysis.
If you try to do your asset life cycle analysis without those inputs, … [Read more...]

This is a different example. So this was Walkerton, Canada in 2000. So what happened here, they’ve got some bores, they have cows around and they’ve got E. coli, a particular type of E. coli that’s carried in cow manure into the bores.
Because they had set up a contract with, they have a performance-based contract with the contractor if they haven’t got the chlorine in, they’ve got massive … [Read more...]

So, the other thing is, this is the Minnesota River Bridge, in the US. I don’t know if you remember.
In 2007 it collapsed; killed 13 people, 145 injured.
This is the Mississippi River and it made worldwide news at the time. The bridge dropped into the Mississippi River while they were repairing it, by the way.
The thing was, if you go back to 1970s and 80s, in engineering, there were … [Read more...]

Now the interesting thing about that threshold of safety and trust is you can spend heaps of dollars and get your levels of service up to and get your risks back down but you never get your trust back.
So as infrastructure managers, if you build something that fails or you have a failure sequence like that one at Flint that’s recent, once you lose your trust, so in dictatorships, if you get on … [Read more...]

Alright. Levels of service. So levels of service, cost, and risk. And again this came out of the Road Maintenance Task Force work and one of the things we see are these three axes.
So levels of service, you can say, hey I’ve got this levels of service and it going to cost me here at this much. And over here, remember I said to you earlier the risk is often hidden. There’s risk.
And the … [Read more...]

One of the things that are a bit interesting in terms of service levels, things like that, that we tend to forget about is we have specialty assets.
So this one is the Boston, they build this new bridge. This is iconic for Boston, US.
This one is Te Rewa Rewa footbridge in Taranaki, with Mount Taranaki behind it. And it’s just in a circle way, a walkway that runs along the coast. And I think … [Read more...]

In this post, Ross talks about the categories of service levels in New Zealand on the areas of roads and utilities.
NZ ONRC Service Level Categories
And then, this was the slide I used up in Canada in July. And I take photos as a hobby so I was putting in photos on these slides, just sort of try to get Canadians and Americans to go oh, New Zealand’s nice. We should come. So this is Mt. … [Read more...]

So in terms of service levels, what I thought I’d look at. This is New Zealand… I don’t know if you’ve heard of One Network Road Classification. Those of you who have done any work in transportation will know about it.
So the way that you manage roads generally is you set up a hierarchy from hey, it’s a really important road, an interstate or a major national highway in overseas, or what we … [Read more...]

In the "Gap Analysis and Review – Infrastructure Asset Management Diagram" post, Ross emphasized the importance of identifying, reviewing, and reconciling the gaps in the asset management plan.
In this post, Ross explains further about financials and risks. Read his summary and don't miss his very important advice for a successful AMP.
Ross continues:
Now the silly thing is, everybody … [Read more...]

So, it’s easy, isn’t it? Good. You go write an asset management plan but what happens is when the minute you start doing this, you’ll realize you've got gaps.
So, hey, here’s the service level we like but we’re not delivering that or you’ve got gaps in that. Here’s the demand we think was happening but we got no way of meeting it all. We’ve got gaps in asset provision.
Here’s the risk that … [Read more...]